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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Granny/troll, all of those things you list are obsolete. Nobody needs to know how to do them. It is like you are complaining that they can’t read Morse code or break ice from the lake for the icebox.

Kids can’t count money because cash is obsolete. Did you actually had a store clerk a $20 bill?  It is hard to picture that. Don’t do that anymore. Everyone uses Apple Pay or credit cards now.

They can’t write checks or use mail because nobody does those things either. Use Zelle or email instead and join the 21st century.

The DVD was where you started to give yourself away. That’s just ludicrous, even before we get to cops and robbers and monopoly.

I don’t understand how people have the time to post fake posts for strangers to respond to. [/quote]

This.  I don't think any of the things OP listed will be relevant to my 11 year old when he's an adult. I doubt he will ever write a check in his life. He won't use dvds (though he does know how to use them) because they have been obsolete for 10 years already.  He will never need to figure out exact change. Other than a $5 tip to a valet or cash (in even $20s) to various service workers (housecleaner, tutors), I don't think I've used cash in 10+ years. I promise you my son won't be using cash as an adult.  DS can read and write in cursive (badly), but he will never need this skill. All correspondence is in digital print, not cursive.  And writing a letter? The only reason anyone ever writes a hardcopy letter anymore is to placate grandma and grandad.  Other than xmas cards and thank you notes, I haven't received a personal snail mail letter in..... decades? Once the boomers die, no one will ever mail a letter again.

Every instance cited by the OP has been obsolete for 10 years+.  They aren't "basic" skills. They are old person skills.  I was born in 1978, and this would be like someone complaining to me in 1988 that I didn't know how to use betamax, 8-track, a computer punch card system, or know how to crank an engine to start it in winter.

OP - you suck. [/quote]

I didn’t think it was possible, but you’re even more annoying than OP.[/quote]

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